dishonest
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The Navy has disputed some of the reporting, with Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao calling accounts of the crew’s struggles dishonest.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
He promises to present his story faithfully; as he observes, “a dishonest memoir is as pointless as a book without a reader.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“If it’s just slapping a brand name on a pre-existing screen, that feels very deceptive and dishonest to me,” Storch said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, he said he would not apologise for an "inadvertent mistake" that he said Farage had amplified in a "fundamentally dishonest way".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
That was the most frightening time of my life, and quite the most dishonest, and the resulting hysteria lent great passion to my sermons—for a while.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing dishonest
Power Prefix: dis-
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